Example sentences of "around in the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | it 's all these odd ideas that go around in the barbaric south that 's the trouble ! |
| 2 | Robert O'Mahoney 's King , a ‘ dynamotologist ’ — ‘ self-realisation , you know ? ’ — is the picture of a man floundering around in the deep end of life , who has forgotten not only how to swim , but even where he left his life jacket . |
| 3 | Agnes went back into the cottage and , hearing Alisdair moving around in the other room , poured the water into a basin so that he might wash . |
| 4 | We 'd just sit around in the front parlour of my house and smoke Typhoo Tea in my dad 's pipe . |
| 5 | Conscious that she had been crawling around in the hot sunshine for some time without a hat , she retired a short distance to the shade of some trees , sat down on a convenient boulder and tried to conjecture how Alain Gebrec might have spent his last moments . |
| 6 | Culley moved around in the small space close to the window . |
| 7 | She 's been nosing around in the regulating office , bet you anything you like she has , and she does n't fool me ! ’ |
| 8 | If you do venture by car on to the edge of Otmoor , there is the feeling that you will be unable to turn around in the narrow space between the dykes , or may get stuck up to the axles in mud . |
| 9 | They had rolled around in the narrow berth on the unanchored sheet , slipping on the shiny much-worn cheap leatherette surface of the bunk , lurching in and out of one another in a determined kind of way , the only passengers on the boat not to be paralysed with seasickness . |
| 10 | New ideas can be bounced around in the comparative safety of the governors ' meeting and reactions gauged . |
| 11 | The surface oceans are actually super-saturated with calcium carbonate so there 's a lot in solution , there 's more in solution than in theory is possible , in super-saturated condition and in addition there 's a lot floating around in the solid form in biological material . |
| 12 | All they needed was the proof , and when a photographer hired by a down-market Sunday newspaper caught the Princess of Wales emerging from her friend Kate Menzies 's mews house during the early hours of the morning with David Waterhouse , and fooling around in the quiet road , they thought they had it . |
| 13 | I 'm the one running around in the fockin' rain ! ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Other members of the herd are swimming around in the blood-red sea as this killing continues . |
| 15 | They stopped at the balustraded terrace overlooking the small lake , and leaned over ; below , enormous golden fish lay around in the green water . |
| 16 | In a few days time we 'll be sitting him on top of a bonfire and standing around in the cold night while we light up the sky with loads of colour . |
| 17 | He swam around in the cold plunge for five minutes to close his pores , then towelled himself vigorously before jumping on the scales in the rest room . |
| 18 | T was not the best night for standing around in the cold wind and rain ( OK so it 's undercover , but the wind do n't half blow through there ) watching telly ( and paying a fiver for the priviledge of doing so ) |
| 19 | At least , he was unhurt and able to move around in the considerable space available to him . |
| 20 | She would have got soaked had they stayed any longer , and Ven was quite right to see it was not sensible to amble around in the pouring rain . |
| 21 | As I reeled around in the meaty steam a little tune tinkled repetitively in my mind ; it was the song Siegfried and I were forever singing as we waited to enter the RAF , the popular jingle which In our innocence we thought typified the new life ahead . |
| 22 | Chairman before before you do finally er pack your bag and zoom off back to wherever it is you 're going , could I on behalf of the county council and all of our participants here today and those who 've been around in the last fortnight thank you and Miss Whittaker and your assistant able assistants er Mrs Binns and Dave in the programme office for the sterling work they 've done . |
| 23 | One does not hope to see Les Peard around in the same way as the name of Winston Jones vanished after he handed Scotland their 1984 Grand Slam on a plate , aided and abetted by the British press and its tirade against French forward play . |
| 24 | He stood , arms akimbo , looking around in the musty gloom . |
| 25 | Feel around in the top pocket of his blazer , there you will find the shard . |
| 26 | All the main banks stress that they do not want to boss firms around in the German style , nor do they want to send in managers or directors . |
| 27 | She pushed her spoon around in the delicious minestra soup , and forced herself to eat some . |
| 28 | The mountain goat 's ancestry , as a member of the Bovid family , gave it a good start : it gave the animal the means of subsisting on the poor mountain vegetation , and it provided it with feet that could be adapted to moving around in the precipitous terrain . |
| 29 | On Eastbourne promenade we have created a tropical paradise with flowers from all over the world , and into this setting , flying around in the natural habitat are 100 's of LIVE butterflies . |